Nyack Hospital chaplain in coma after gas pump explosion in Danbury

9:55 PM,
Dec. 23, 2013

Wheels Citgo at 27 Tamarack Ave. in Danbury is the site of an explosion about 6:30 a.m. Friday in which David Wentroble, 60, of Danbury, was severely burned. Wentroble is a pastor at Nyack Hospital and Central Presbyterian Church in Haverstraw.

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A Nyack Hospital chaplain remained critical in a medically induced coma with third-degree burns after getting caught in a ball of fire during an explosion at a gasoline pump in Connecticut.

David Wentroble, 60, who also is minister at Central Presbyterian Church in Haverstraw, faces months of surgery, skin grafts and rehabilitation after suffering burns across 20 percent of his body, his friends said.

He will be hospitalized for at least four months and remains in the burn unit at Bridgeport Hospital, said the Rev. Warren Brandt, who backs up Wentroble as director of pastoral care of Nyack ...